Watch how a sketch of the ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ floating home takes shape

Originally published January 23, 2018 at 7:03 pm
Updated January 24, 2018 at 6:35 am

Watch Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario as he uses old and new media to make drawings from a wobbly dock on Lake Union. His subject: The floating home from the 1993 blockbuster ‘Sleepless in Seattle.’

Continuing with my 2018 goal of taking you behind-the-scenes more often, here’s a new 90-second clip where you can see another important Seattle location: the floating home where Tom Hanks performed some scenes in the 1993 blockbuster “Sleepless in Seattle.”

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Continuing with my 2018 goal of taking you behind-the-scenes more often — did you see my video sketching the Virginia V? — here’s a new 90-second clip where you can see another important Seattle location: the floating home where Tom Hanks performed some scenes in the 1993 blockbuster “Sleepless in Seattle.” (That was the year after I graduated from college. Time sure flies! It’s also been more than seven years since I first set foot on a dock of Lake Union floating homes.)

The video is a bit of a mashup. You can see my pen and watercolor brushes in action first, then you’ll see a replay of a digital sketch drawn on iPad. I thought it’d be interesting to pair both sketches in the same video as a nod to our “old media vs. new media” world.